Beer Engine Refurbishment Project - How to Repair a Beer Hand Pump
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Fixing up a slightly worse for wear beer engine (hand pump) that I picked up second hand. It needed a new pump diaphragm and a general service and clean up. Hopefully the things I learnt here might help you out if you are looking to repair or service your own. This was my first attempt at this so any comments advice and constructive criticism are welcome!
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Hey I'm the guy you bought that from. I'm so glad to see her back to working condition after all those years sat idle. I'm also glad my suggestion of a silicone valve worked in the end. You did a beautiful job of the brass polishing and yeah, that blemish you couldn't get out bugged the hell out of me too!
Here's to many more years of beers poured through. Cheers!
Just fixed an old beer engine I got for free with this method. Little information about them online so this video was a godsend. Love all your content. Cheers. 🍻
Thanks for the feedback glad it helped! 🍻
Hi Richard, I manged to get my beer engine working thanks for the video.
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Excellent video Richard, fair play to you for breaking the unit down to literally the bare bones...
Thanks Gary it was a good learning experience!
@@DudesBrews Bet it was, thinking of getting one from TMM that you can attach direct to a partly carbed keg for some cask 'style' bitters...
@@gazhugs you can do that with any pump if you buy a check valve to put in front of it, I will be going over this on a video when I set mine up 👍🏻
@@DudesBrews Great stuff Richard, will hang fire on buying one until your vid comes out, i keg virtually all my output so attaching one to a keg is where i need to be
Well done bud cracking refurbishment of the beer engine, looks like everyone wants one now. Cheers
Great job mate, always nice when it goes back together with minimal 'spare parts' 🤣🤣🤣
great video i have a beer engine to set soon now I know what to do if there are any problems thanks
Well I was never bothered about getting a hand pull. BUT NOW I AM! Thanks tricky! Lol. Slowly working my way through your brewing career on here 😀
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Looking forward to seeing you getting some homebrew through one of these
Cheers, so am I! Need to get a bitter brewed up pronto to put through it...
Beautiful British Beer Engine!! Great job!
Great how to video Trick. A bit of phosphoric acid would have taken care of that rust, maybe even neat starsan. Welcome to the old mens club!
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Great video Tricky, that will give me more work for the weekends lol. 2 to strip down and service great idea on the seals too. Cheers
Cheers mate 👍🏻🍻
Honey , have you seen my silicone sheet. - No dear ! Hurriedly reshapes to a smaller rectangle hoping she won`t notice. Hehe.. nothing is sacred in our house, she knows everything is fair game when I`m on a project. I recently stripped and cleaned 2 of these pumps, man it is so satifying when you pull that 1st creamy homebrewed pint.
Shhhh she hasn't noticed yet..... hahahahaha
Good stuff Richard i'm looking to get one of those set up soon, cheers
Nice work! That pump would be nice to have in my brewery. Must check if I could find one. 🍻👍🏼
Another really good and useful video great stuff 👍
Very helpful video that mate,I'm getting one myself this week coming so that video has come in useful for when I strip mine down.
Cheers mate 🍺🍻
Helpful video thanks
Perfect timing, very helpful, have just found one of these down here in NZ after 2 years of searching. Did you lubricate any of the seals?
I'll strip mine down as well and hope it all works.
RLBS recommended pulling warm not hot line cleaner thru the engine to clean the inside and then some starsan before use.
Look forward to you pulling a real cask ale on it.
I haven’t put any lube on them as yet, may do this when I set them up for first proper use
Great video fella, just about to refurb 2 myself so this is very helpful indeed..cheers
Glad it helped
Thanks so much! I want to build my own 'cause I can't believe anyone would pay over $500 American for something so simple.
Cheers. That is crazy money! New ones are pretty expensive over here in the UK too but agree that actual mechanics of them are very basic
Plus, why would you pay money for a working beer engine that you could start using right away when you can piss away a whole two months of weekends in your shop building one! I have added this to my list of shop projects. Unfortunately that puts it about a year and a half out.
Enjoyed the video.
Excellent video. Many thanks for sharing. Our local village hall bought a second hand beer engine a year or so ago and we haven't had the confidence to dismantle it - we just cleaned up the outside and sterilised the insides before using it. It has been working fine so far but, this week, has developed an issue whereby the pump "sucks back" the beer from the glass when the handle is returned to the vertical position after each pull. We can get round this in the short term by moving the glass down, away from the swan neck each time the handle is returned to vertical, and then putting the glass back on the pull down again but it would be nice to solve the problem. I do feel confident enough to attempt to dismantle the pump having seen your video but does the problem I've described sound like it could be the diaphragm or should I be looking for something else being the cause?
Thanks again
Hi Dave, yes it sounds like some kind of issue with the piston/diaphragm, probably either sticking which could just require a good clean or maybe perishing and losing its flexibility perhaps. There are lots of different versions of beer engines but the working principle is the same for all of them so shouldn't be too hard to work out if you go in for a closer look! Cheers
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Great video, Did you try angram? I have 2 that I need to take apart so I’ll use this as a reference. 😉👍🏻
Would really like to get a beer engine, finding used ones in Sweden is basically a lost cause though. Ebay seems unreasonably expensive.
Great video thanks! I have leaking engine also but the outside of the pump is covered with styrofoam, any experience on removing this?
sorry no never had to deal with that
What do they call the rubber grips that go on the end of screw clamps that attach the pump underneath the bar? I've lost one of mine and don't know how to replace it.
Got an older type one which works very well. There is a slight dribble from inside somewhere which I will tackle in due course. However- there are 2 springs inside at the top which aren't connected to anything- they just hang there. Any ideas? There does not appear to be anything they can attach to. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Great Vid BTW.
thanks, liked your work!
I'm working to pour beer from Sankey keg (after making sure it is with low carbonation) using beer engine just like the one you have. I succeed to do it peaty well but have too much foam and need to put the pint glass to sit. Have you tried this or have any idea what may be the solution for the foaming? do you have any trips and tricks to make it better?
I don't have any experience of using Sankey kegs to be honest, can only suggest trying to get the serving pressure as low as possible
@@DudesBrews thanks
tomato ketchup cleans brass good ive been told
Just asking Sir, the beer won't be spoiled in this system?
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Just bought one for £40. Seems ok. May need some advice. My dispenser pipe looks a bit wider. Are there different sizes
There are lots of different types of hand pumps so I imagine there are slight variations with the dispense pipes although should have a standard fitting for the sparkler if used
@@DudesBrews actually I’ve just watched your second video and the one I have is exactly the same as that
I like your dialect. From which region do you come? I would say, we have a similar dialect in english - although I am german.
South East originally but living in Bedfordshire now 👍🏻🍻
Was hoping you didn't finish with saying you'd found those seals for 5p each somewhere!
some floral language would have followed if I did!